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West African bloc to meet days after its deadline expired for Niger’s coup plotters to reinstate the ousted president.
West African leaders will meet on Thursday to discuss Niger after coup leaders who seized power there on July 26 defied a deadline to reinstate the ousted president or face the threat of military intervention, a spokesman for the regional bloc says.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has previously sent military forces into troubled member states and imposed sanctions, had told the coup leaders to stand down by Sunday. But the coup leaders…
